: In this paper we propose a walking aid system for blind people by exploiting a haptic feedback equipment. The proposed system is a form of haptic feedback cane which is composed of MCU, communication module, sensing module and actuator. The proposed system recognizes obstacles around the blind by using ultrasonic sensors in the sensing module. Moreover, the system generates feedback information about the detected obstacle and then notifies the information to the blind through the actuator. The blind can notice the direction of the detected obstacle with the haptic feedback equipment and vibration motor. Futhermore, the proposed system controls a nearby IoT(Internet of Things) system by utilizing push buttons through the ZigBee communication. Finally, the blind can easily decide the direction of the obstacle without interference of terrain feature by using the proposed system.
In this paper, we propose the obstacle database management module for obstacle estimation and clustering. The proposed G-eye manager system can create customized walking route for blind people using the UI manager and verify the coordinates of the path. Especially, G-eye management system designed a regional information module. The regional information module can improve the loading speed of the obstacle data by classifying the local information by clustering the coordinates of the obstacle.In this paper, we evaluate the reliability of the walking route generated from the obstacle map. We obtain the coordinate value of the path avoiding the virtual obstacle from the proposed system and analyze the error rate of the path avoiding the obstacle according to the size of the obstacle. And we analyze the correlation between obstacle size and route by classifying virtual obstacles into sizes.
This chapter will survey the clustering algorithm that is unsupervised learning among data mining and machine learning techniques. The most popular clustering algorithm is the K-means clustering algorithm; It can represent a cluster of data. The K-means clustering algorithm is an essential factor in finding an appropriate K value for distributing the training dataset. It is common to find this value experimentally. Also, it can use the elbow method, which is a heuristic approach used in determining the number of clusters. One of the present clusterings applied studies is the particulate matter concentration clustering algorithm for particulate matter distribution estimation. This algorithm divides the area of the center that the fine dust distribution using K-means clustering. It then finds the coordinates of the optimal point according to the distribution of the particulate matter values. The training dataset is the latitude, longitude of the observatory, and PM10 value obtained from the AirKorea website provided by the Korea Environment Corporation. This study performed the K-means clustering algorithm to cluster feature datasets. Furthermore, it showed an experiment on the K values to represent the cluster better. It performed clustering by changing K values from 10 to 23. Then it generated 16 labels divided into 16 cities in Korea and compared them to the clustering result. Visualizing them on the actual map confirmed whether the clusters of each city were evenly bound. Moreover, it figures out the cluster center to find the observatory location representing particulate matter distribution.
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